If a school is a public school, call it one; but do not think that we gain anything by calling a little country school, with two or three rooms and one or two teachers, where some of the students are studying the alphabet, a university.
Washington stresses the importance of accurately naming schools to reflect their true nature rather than inflating their status.
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The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…
Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.
As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.